The politics of Bank Holidays
Both Keir Starmer and the TUC have called for a Bank Holiday if the Lionesses win the football World Cup on Sunday. The Government of course is unimpressed. The Tories have a mindset that Bank Holidays are bad for business although Royal occasions are an exception.
Neo-Liberals don’t like people having holidays when they should be working (they take holidays themselves obviously)
Britain does not have enough Bank Holidays. That doesn’t mean that May Day should be abolished and replaced with Trafalgar Day or Margaret Thatcher Day in the autumn. It does mean that we need to have at least one more public holiday between August and the end of December and the same between January and Easter. Ive always favoured 30th January but I appreciate that is a touchy subject even 374 years on
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